mwdebug
Bare metal
mwdebug hosts are a small cluster of application servers set aside for use with WikimediaDebug.
The servers run on shared Ganeti hardware rather than baremetal and have a few additional packages installed to aid in debugging (such as php-tideways).
We currently have:
- mwdebug1001.eqiad: Ad-hoc testing
- mwdebug1002.eqiad: Stage during deployment for Eqiad.
- mwdebug2001.codfw: Ad-hoc testing.
- mwdebug2002.codfw: Stage during deployment for Codfw.
Connecting
Connect to mwdebug over ssh by proxying through a bastion (e.g. bast1003.wikimedia.org
). As with other hosts, ensure you have ProxyJump
configured in .ssh/config
(see Production shell access). Then connect as follows:
user@laptop:~$ ssh mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet
MediaWiki on Kubernetes
As part of MediaWiki On Kubernetes, two mw-debug deployments exist (one in each datacenter). These deployments can be reached via the browser through the k8s-mwdebug
option for WikimediaDebug (for the current datacenter), or k8s-mwdebug-eqiad
or k8s-mwdebug-codfw
in the rare case that you want a particular one.
Connecting
Services
History
- mwdebug deployments of Mediawiki on Kubernetes were made available in 2021
- Debug hosts were reimaged with buster in Feb 2021.
- mwmdebug1003 was a WikimediaDebug host in Eqiad, used for testing Debian Buster for a while when most servers ran Stretch. It was later used for testing Stretch when most servers were Buster. It was deleted in 2020 per T267248.